Arguably that's the reason most people stay away from it. If you can put aside your feelings about the now-departed founder and boot it, you may find that it's everything you're looking for. I'm totally dumbfounded at the rationale people are invoking in recent days not to use urbit but instead some other derivation of previously tried technology.

It's not vaporware — I use it everyday to interact with many people. It's not where it hopes to be but it's going there at quite a clip.